My how this month has flown. One minute it was the beginning and suddenly we are looking at the end of the financial year again - and for me yet another birthday. Oh dear. Time flies by far too quickly.

So for this month, what have I been doing you might ask. Well . . . . let me think.

There have been more customer quilts. These are just delightful.

This one even has kangaroos jumping across the quilt. So cute and very appropriate given the fabrics used in the quilt. The backing is boomerangs!! Simply gorgeous.

Here's a close up of the kangaroo.

I have even managed to finish a couple of my own. The first has been in the planning stages for quite some time, but was delayed because I was waiting on the aqua fabric to use as the background. This one is called Awash and I love the new quilting pattern that was used - Bumpy Spirals.

And then there is the Shortcake quilt (pattern from Cluck Cluck Sew) that the quilting group are doing. I have to admit that as I was making the blocks I was really not happy with the quilt, but as it has gone together I have grown to love it. It is so bright, so I called this quilt Carnival.

After our sewing day on Saturday, it was off to the Modern Quilt Show in Kiama. It was a great day and so many gorgeous quilts. Here are just a couple of photos - just the ones that took my fancy.

There were certainly many more quilts that were just gorgeous, but I couldn't take photos of them all.

While rummaging through my chest of stored quilts, I came across a couple of really old quilts. I am going to share one with you today. The quilt top was made at a workshop at Country Patchwork - probably around mid 1990's. It was for my daughter's room in our new home. I even started hand quilting it with a web design in the large green squares and butterflies in the top of the baskets. When I pulled it out I found that all the large squares had been quilted, but not all the butterflies, so I removed the butterflies and put the quilt onto the machine. It still has butterflies in the baskets, but they are now much more intricate. The green triangles have a lovely pattern in them and the border is all swirls.

I am so pleased that it is finished. I even still had the binding for the quilt. Unfortunately it was about 20" short, but I was able to save the day and only I know that the binding is not as thick as it should be!! I wonder if my daughter will want the quilt - after I wash it of course.

The other one is still very much a work in progress, but there will be photos to come.

Now I am going to get another post done before the end of the month - just to show that I can do more than one a month!!

To be truly current, this should have been done much earlier in the week, but events have conspired so that wasn't possible. Last weekend our quilting group had a sewing day. We had undertaken to make a Shortcake quilt, and most of us hadn't progressed very far. The only requirements for our "group quilts" is that they must be made from our stash. Great incentive to move some of our accumulated fabrics.

I was able to set up the garage with a long table and sewing machines - and heaters. Yes, although we have had some gorgeous early winter afternoons, this day dawned grey and overcast.

As you can see, everyone was very industrious and managed at least some progress on their quilt. I was able to get some of my blocks on the design wall. I have to say the rows are now together and I just need to put on a small border and then get it quilted. Pictures will come when it is finished.

I had a lovely customer quilt to finish this week too. The quilt was made to commemorate a wedding anniversary. The workmanship in the quilt was extremely good. I am pleased to say that the customer was very happy with the end result. Here are a couple of photos, which she has allowed me to share.